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Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain

By Joe Wilkins
China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky

By Frank Landymore
Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office

By Joe Wilkins
Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity”

By Victor Tangermann
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

By Frank Landymore

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Data Privacy

Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible

It’s so powerful, the company claims it’s a major cybersecurity risk.

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge

Good lord.

By Frank Landymore

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There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory

“We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab.”

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Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits

Hands off!

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land

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Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes

By Frank Landymore

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Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America

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New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop

Quantum Computing

Google Warns That Quantum Armageddon Is Drawing Closer

By Frank Landymore

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Netizens Terrified of What NASA Grew on the Space Station: A Potato

By Frank Landymore

Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

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If Trump’s War in Iran Spirals Into a Full-Blown Recession, It Could Crush the AI Industry and Spark a Catastrophic Polycrisis

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Scientists Detect Something Bizarre in Subterranean Structures Under the Great Salt Lake

By Frank Landymore

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Wall Street Has a Major Problem With AI Data Centers

The Trump administration's fumbling the lead by cutting research funding could allow China to become the world's top scientific superpower.

Science & Energy

China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World’s Scientific Superpower

By Victor Tangermann

Proponents of clean energy have launched a campaign of vengeance, targeting political candidates opposing wind and solar.

Renewable Energy

Clean Energy Industry Launching Campaign of Vengeance

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke said he suddenly was unable to speak while on board the ISS, triggering the first-ever medical evacuation.

NASA Astronaut Reveals Terrifying Medical Incident That Caused Evacuation from Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

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New Chinese Spacecraft Tests Robotic Octopus Tentacle for Refueling in Orbit

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Artificial Intelligence

A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've come up with an explanation for the acceleration of Mars' rotation after spotting a "negative mass anomaly."

Scientists Intrigued by “Negative Mass Anomaly” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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